HOW to get the L1,L2 Cache Miss of an intel i5 Sandy Bridge

[eandy]

Hello,

I am working with Vtune Amplifier XE it works fine so far, but with the i5 Sandy Bridge CPU(i5-2400)i have some problem.

1. How can i count the sum of L1 and L2 misses ?

I cannot find any event for it!

2. Are there some formulas to calculated it?

Can you please help me?

Regards

Andr

[Patrick_F_Intel1]

Hello Andre,
You can count L1 load hits and L1 load misses with:

MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS
MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.L1_HIT

Then you can compute:
%L1D_load_hit = 100.0*MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.L1_HIT / MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS
and
%L1D_load_miss= 100.0*(MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS - MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.L1_HIT) / MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS

For the L2 load hit and miss you can use:
L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT
L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD

Then you can compute:
%L2_demand_rd_hit = 100.0 * L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT / L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD
%L2_demand_rd_miss = 100.0 * (L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD - L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT) / L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD

I hope this helps,
Pat

[Shannon_C_Intel]

Andre,
I have given an answer specific to Intel VTune Amplifier XE and the events it can count back on your first thread here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=102467
It also gives instructions on how to find and use the events in VTune.
Thanks,
Shannon